Ethnic cleansing and the formation of settler colonial geographies |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel;2. Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel;1. Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego, 5998 Alcalá Park, San Diego, CA 92110, USA;2. Centre on Conflict, Development & Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute of International & Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland;3. Institute for Economic Policy and Centre for Applied Economics (CSEA), Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Via Necchi n. 5, 20123 Milano, Italy;1. School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales CF10 3WA, UK;2. Instituto de Investigaciones “Dr. José María Luis Mora”, Plaza Valentín Gómez Farías 12, San Juan Mixcoac, Distrito Federal C.P. 03730, Mexico;1. Zilber School of Public Health and Urban Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1240 N. 10th St., PO Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413, USA;2. Department of Geography, Syracuse University, 144 Eggers Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA;3. Balsillie School of International Affairs and Geography, Wilfrid Laurier University, 67 Erb Street West, Waterloo, ON N2L 6C2, Canada |
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| Abstract: | Taking into account that ethnic cleansing not only undoes the legal and spatial formations within a given territory but also is a productive force aimed at securing and normalizing a new political order within a contested territory, we examine its impact on settler colonial geographies. We show that the relative completeness or incompleteness of ethnic cleansing helps shape the specific configuration of two intricately tied sites of social management – spatial reproduction and legal governance – within settler colonial regimes. We claim that complete ethnic cleansing produces a ‘refined’ form of settler colonialism resembling the colonial geographies of North America and Australia and is more readily normalized, while incomplete ethnic cleansing produces an ‘intermediate’ form of settler colonialism similar to the colonial regime in Rhodesia before the settlers lost power and is impossible to normalize due to a series of contradictions stemming from the presence of the ‘indigenous other’. To uncover this less acknowledged feature of ethnic cleansing we compare two territories that were colonized by Israel during the 1967 War: the Syrian Golan Heights and the Palestinian West Bank. |
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